Aerospace Business

HoneyWell Aerospace

The roots of Honeywell Aerospace’s Urbana operations go back to Grimes Manufacturing, founded in Urbana in 1933 by entrepreneurial inventor Warren Grimes, known as the Father of the Aviation Lighting Industry. Honeywell creates the finest lighting products available for the world's fixedwing and rotary aircraft.

Sarica Manufacturing

Founded in Urbana in 2005 by Steve and Connie Schneider, Sarica is a leading assembler of LED lighting boards, including metal core. The company’s expertise in cables and harnesses and circuit card assembly led to sustained growth and valued partnership with customers in the aerospace, defense, automotive and industrial markets.

Hughey & Phillips, LLC

Hughey & Phillips is a global leader in the manufacture of obstruction lighting technology. Hughey & Phillips, began operations in Urbana in 2009, engineers and designs low, medium and high intensity lighting technology solutions that illuminate radio and television transmission towers, communications and microwave antennas, wind turbines, grain elevators, buildings, smokestacks, bridges and other obstructions to aerial navigation.

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